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EUSEBIUS ( Pamphilius ). The auncient ecclesiastical histories of the first six hundred yeares after

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EUSEBIUS ( Pamphilius ). The auncient ecclesiastical histories of the first six hundred yeares after

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 19 @ 18:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
EUSEBIUS ( Pamphilius ). The auncient ecclesiastical histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, written in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Caesarea in Palaestina wrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople wrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch wrote 6 bookes. Whereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the lives of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in divinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the said translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the Histories. London, Printed by Richard Field, dwelling in Great Wood-street, 1619With a large oval woodcut device on the general title-page and a slightly smaller version of the same device on each of the four sub-titles, pages (12), 192, 203 - 598, (18), complete thus, though without the blank leaves at beginning and end, folio, contemporary calf, gilt ruled unlettered spine, the binding rubbed and worn but still strong and otherwise a well-margined, very good copy with a neat ownership inscription at head of title dated 1628. NSTC 10575. Hanmer (1543-1604) first came to public notice as a writer, producing in 1581 two semi-official responses to Campion's famous challenge. But his most lasting scholarly contribution was as a historian of the early church and, later, of Ireland. In 1577 he published The Ancient Ecclesiastical Histories, which sought to provide a detailed account of the first six centuries of Christian history by translating near contemporary sources, most notably Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History. Frequently republished, even down to the 18C, Hanmer's work provided an essential source for those protestants who wanted to show how rapidly the church had declined from its early purity. He moved to Ireland in 1591 where he was successful in gaining the patronage of the earl of Ormond and acquired a succession of posts (ODNB).english pre 1641; RELIGION; CLASSICS; RELIGION; TRANSLATIONS; ENGLISH; GREEK; ; ; ; ;